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Automation and incident response

Threat hunting

The proactive and manual search for signs of attackers who have already bypassed the defenses, instead of passively waiting for an alarm. The analyst starts from a hypothesis and searches logs and telemetry in order to uncover threats that automated tools did not catch.

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